Quotes from Paul David Tripp

To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can do. It is either the height of arrogance or the depth of delusion to think that you are okay. None of us is okay apart from the invasion of grace that is the core purpose for the coming of Jesus.

So your weaknesses are not the big danger that you should fear. What you should really fear are your delusions of strength. When you tell yourself that you are strong, you quit being excited about God's rescuing, transforming, and empowering grace.

Many people will get up today and in some way will ask creation to be their savior, that is, to give them what only God is able to give.

The Bible welcomes us to bring our cares to God because he cares for us (1 Pet. 5:7).

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

Rather than suffering being connected to the bad things we have done, Scripture connects trials and difficulty to the good things God wants for us and is working to produce in us (see James 1:2–4).

Grace is only ever attractive to sinners.

But the message of the gospel is devastatingly humbling. It tells me that I am in a hopeless, impossible, and irreversible state apart from divine intervention.

death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.

It tells us that he will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5).

For the believer, fear is always God-forgetful. If God is sovereign and his rule is complete, wise, righteous, and good, why would you fear?

There is no faith that he will give them all they need to respond to each other in godly ways. As a result, their relationship is reduced to human demands, human performance, human failure, human judgment, and human punishment

Prayer is abandoning my righteousness, admitting my need for forgiveness, and resting in the grace of the cross of Jesus Christ.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.

Si no reconoces tu pecado, no valorarás la gracia. Si no valoras la gracia, no buscarás el perdón y el rescate que esta provee.

Suffering doesn't so much change your heart as expose what has been in your heart all along.

First, the gospel is the world's best love story. It is a story of a God of love who places his love on people who do not deserve his love. This God sends the Son of his love to make a sacrifice of love so that his children can be welcomed into his arms of love and become a community of love that takes his love to those in desperate need of that love.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

No podemos gloriarnos en aquello de lo que nos libera la gracia, sin aceptar también aquello a lo que nos llama.

tu Dios tiene un increíble poder; un poder distintivo. Él conoce a Su pueblo, conoce dónde está, conoce lo que necesitan y cuándo lo necesitan, conoce de qué debe ser liberado y qué debe ser controlado para que Su voluntad sea hecha. Él siempre le da a Sus hijos el poder que necesitan.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.